Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy

There's no reason to fear a Shiite-dominated country.

By

Bartle Bull

Updated March 5, 2010 6:35 pm ET

Baghdad

If Iraq's elections this Sunday are broadly as free and fair as the other four times Iraqis have gone to the polls since 2005, they will mark a milestone of which Iraqis and Americans should be proud. The arguments for abandoning Iraq to Saddam Hussein—and the contention that democracy has somehow been forced upon a reluctant country—will be consigned forever to the graves they deserve.